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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
"George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years host of This Week and Good Morning America, recounts never-before-told crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
How are we alike? How are we different? Why is it important to celebrate what we share and what makes us unique? In this book, readers will examine diversity, friendship, and coming together.
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Russia's invasion was not unexpected. For months, President Vladimir Putin had been amassing his military along the Russian-Ukrainian border. By February, 190,000 troops stood ready to invade. For Putin, giving that command would be the first step in his long-sought goal of bringing Ukraine back under Russian influence. Ukrainians are fiercely loyal to their president and their country, and have shown remarkable courage in opposing the Russian invasion....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Told over the course of forty-eight hours, seventeen-year-old Tony heads back to his old life in Des Moines, Washington after being released from a youth detention center, but toxic old relationships and unforseen challenges make staying on the straight-and-narrow nearly impossible.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Now alone, Adena learns the streets of Loot by herself and meets a mysterious Elite named Makoto who harbors a dangerous ability, but their love is quickly interrupted when Adena becomes Paedyn's seamstress for the Purging Trials.
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two-time Hunger Games survivor Katniss Everdeen is targeted by a vengeful Capitol that vows to make Katniss and all of District 12 pay for the current unrest.
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In THE WHITE BONUS, Tracie McMillan asks a provocative question about racism in America: When people of color are denied so much, what are white people given? And how much is it worth--not in amorphous privilege, but in dollars and cents? McMillan beginswith three generations of her family, tracking their modest wealth to its roots: American policy that helped whites first. Simultaneously, she details the complexities of their advantage, exploring...
9) No escape
Author
Publisher
Underlined
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Lexi receives an invitation to participate in a brand-new escape room, along with her best friend Tess, she's thrilled. They could both use the distraction after a recent tragedy. But once inside, they learn that they must compete against one another. What do you do when your best friend suddenly becomes your biggest adversary, and every choice you make puts her in danger? How far will you go to win?"--
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles is a taxi driver in Paris, and he is having a very bad day. Enter Madeleine, an immaculately groomed nonagenarian, who informs Charles that the trip today will not be a direct one. She is moving into a nursing home and would like to make some stops along the way...
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Spiritually, We, Sah teaches us to view others through the lens of our heart, radically improving how we relate to our friends, family, lovers, strangers-and even our "frenemies." Here is a bold and unapologetically loving guide for building a cultureof enlightenment-in which we creatively transform our struggles into opportunities for awakening, evolution, community care, and actions for the benefit of all beings"--
12) Generation ship
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyger
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world's best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they've sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren't responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It's a time when the entire crew should be coming...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Few things in the world have a more profound effect on your life than the parents who raised you. When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, the pain they cause is deep and often difficult to put into words.You may experience anxiety, depression, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), low self-esteem, addiction, or other mental health conditions as an adult. And you may even feel like it was...
14) The notes
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A reserved Chinese American teen at a Southern performing arts boarding school comes into her own under the tutelage of a glamorous new piano teacher while grappling with her first love, adolescent and academic pressures, and mysterious, personal notes"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Belly has always lived for the summertime because it means all her favorite things: swimming, the beach, and the Fischer boys, Conrad and Jeremiah. She has spent every summer with them at Cousins Beach for as long as she can remember. She has always beenin love with Conrad and finally, one summer, it seems like he might have feelings for her, too. But it turns out, so does Jeremiah. As the summers go on, Belly has to choose between two brothers who...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As her bat mitzvah approaches, Stacy Adelaide Friedman of White Plains, New York, has a lot on her mind: her parents have separated, her mother dresses her like an American Girl doll, her younger brother is embarrassing, and she is totally in love with Andy Goldfarb.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After their friendship breakup, Jana and Maddy find themselves stuck together on the way to an outdoor music festival where they must navigate stolen phones and missing friends, scale Ferris wheels and crash parties, all the while trying to find their wayhome - and back to each other.
20) Emmett
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old self-absorbed Emmett navigates love and relationships in this queer retelling of Emma.